The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ascher, Alexander
This videotape production (1987, 18 min) offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project being conducted at Big Fish Lake in northcentral Alberta since 1984 by Forestry Canada and the Alberta Forest Service (AFS).
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Salih, Taha, Payne
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sims, Buckner
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
From the text ... '... we casually assume that the first Europeans were naturally confronted by a vast, impenetrable wilderness of thick forests stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi....Europeans were very impressed by the American wilderness. A reading of the primary…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hendrickson
From the text ... 'We do not today countenance or use fire everywhere in the national park system....The National Park Service has the obligation to continue to seek to inform the American people on the significance of fire.' © 1972, Tall Timbers Research, Inc. Abstract…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, McRae, Lynham, Hartley
This photo-series was designed to present photographs and a detailed inventory of fuels for important stands in the Boreal and Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Forest Regions of Ontario. Over the last 20 years, an experimental burning program conducted by Forestry Canada, Ontario…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) but also its…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biswell
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
From the conclusion:'As previously mentioned, the results of this study cannot be applied in the field. A great deal of additional work will be needed before application is possible. This study does show, however, that a systems dynamics approach is well suited to analyzing the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
Conclusions: 'The results of this study show that black spruce and jack pine can be established successfully by broadcast seeding from the air on fresh to moist sites on a severely burned cutover area in central Newfoundland. The seeding equipment used proved satisfactory. The…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vyse, Muraro
The effect of broadcast slash burning on the cost of planting a recently logged area of over—mature coastal hemlock—balsam—cedar forest was examined. Planting output and costs were measured before and after burning the same area. Three planting methods were used: bareroot/…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
Recreation is of increasing importance in forest environments. Fire has both short-term effects, trail closures, smoke impacts; and long-term effects, residual 'scars,' potential hazards, on forest recreation. The general public is gaining sophistication in understanding forest…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant production, increasing…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel
Obstacles to public acceptance of prescribed fire include misunderstanding of fire in forest ecosystems, concerned risk to life and property and assumed adverse effects on scenic and recreation values. Increased appreciation of the ecological, safety (fuel reduction) and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
The program RXWINDOW is intended to help fire managers develop prescription windows based on desired fire behavior. It is the fifth program in the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. It reverses calculations found elsewhere in BEHAVE. In RXWINDOW, the user…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Branhagen
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spoon
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rouse, Kershaw
Soil moisture measurements are presented for the summer period of 1971 for nine sites spaced inland from the Hudson Bay coastline adjacent to East Pen Island. The sites show a great variation in natural vegetation from a sparsely vegetated young raised-beach to older beach…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bushey, Stiger
This paper presents an historical review of the concepts and developmental phases of the remote ignition of forest fuels by laser devices. An approximate 20-year developmental history is outlined that culminates with recent proposed concepts qf laser ignition devices (LID). Some…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
Canadian Parks Service policy requires that 'natural resources will be protected and managed with minimal interference to natural processes to ensure the perpetuation of naturally evolving land and water environments and their associated species.' This mandate provides an…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kruse, Higgins
Fire effects on wildlife and wildlife habitat in northern mixed-grass prairie ecosystems may be positive or negative depending on the uniformity, intensity, duration, frequency, location, shape, size, and timing of the fire and 1) the stage in the life cycle of the species…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunting
The pinyon-juniper woodlands and the sagebrush-grasslands, with a combined area of over 90 million ha, comprise a major portion of the rangelands in western North America. During pristine times fire played an important role in these vegetation types. The role of fire has changed…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
There is a strong relationship between jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) regeneration and the combined site and seedbed conditions at the time of seeding. Both unfavorable and favorable seedbed characteristics, as well as available seed sources, are reviewed by groups of sites,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS